Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 2 | Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened . |
| 3 | He found he was walking as a dog walks , its head twisted round to gaze into its master 's face , waiting for a stick to be thrown , wagging its tail . |
| 4 | He was walking past the barley granaries now , three rough structures of tamarisk planking . |
| 5 | I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts . |
| 6 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 7 | Discussions on workers ' control and the general strike to stop war also showed that an important section of the trade unions had reacted against gradualism , at least in words , and was returning to the syndicalist notions fashionable some ten years before . |
| 8 | ‘ It has n't come to that yet , ’ began Tina , but now the van was lurching through the hospital gates , pulling up with a screech of brakes and a grinding of gears at the Casualty entrance . |
| 9 | In June 1980 , Buster 's gonads had n't grown , Roger Mellie was still an eager trainee at the telly , Sid the sexist was leering at the dinner ladies in junior school and Mrs. Grady was n't such an old lady . |
| 10 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 11 | Because he was looking after the council offices . |
| 12 | He was smoking behind the bicycle sheds . |
| 13 | It was growing from the twin roots of controlled food prices and food subsidies . |
| 14 | The £2.3m Pallister said : ‘ When I was going into the dressing rooms before the game I almost walked into the home one . |
| 15 | Mr Dent from the third floor , who was waiting by the lift doors , looked at him narrowly . |
| 16 | It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens . |
| 17 | And it was coming down the side streets erm by er Hotel er what 's the name of that street ? |
| 18 | At one stage he was travelling to the TV studios in London by bus and sleeping overnight at a rail station . |
| 19 | He was running through the cable channels now , most of them showing ‘ seventies reruns or obscure sports cheaply covered . |
| 20 | He was staring at the twin beds . |
| 21 | By the time he reached the gallery his mother was at the far end of the broad corridor , but she was n't going into her room or into his room , she was making for the attic stairs , and now it was his turn to raise his eyebrows . |
| 22 | Tom was standing on the stone steps of the shop at the corner , waiting for him . |
| 23 | Then she was standing at the church gates and looking down Lyra Street ; looking , but not understanding . |
| 24 | Her father was standing by the ward doors , looking bemused . |
| 25 | Lee missed West 's win at Boroughmuir on Saturday because he was playing for the North under-21s on Sunday , and he scored the injury time try which completed the North 's clean sweep in the Divisional Championship . |
| 26 | In early March 1322 , when Lancaster was retreating through the north midlands before the royal army , Holland crossed over to Edward . |
| 27 | Cathy Troupp was talking to a specialist couples counsellor about this month 's case history . |
| 28 | Helen was talking to the Airport Police on the telephone . |
| 29 | Paint was peeling from the shop fronts , some premises were derelict . |
| 30 | ‘ I was referring to the way men view relationships . ’ |